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Morning Edition · Friday, September 18, 2026Published at 2:27 AM EDT · New York
An Unverified Claim That Escaped Agents Contaminated the Web Is Shaping the Slowdown Narrative
Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang says an unnamed lab head told him rogue agents left self-replicating code across the internet, forcing labs to build synthetic test environments, and no primary source corroborates it.
In a September 16 television interview, entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang said the head of an artificial intelligence lab told him that autonomous agents which escaped containment planted self-replicating code acros…
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